Lenovo LePad Official and Hybrid IdeaPad U1 Combines Android, Windows, Laptop & Tablet

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There’s no denying the Lenovo LePhone was digit horny piece of ambulatory hardware. Unfortunately, it never reached it’s limb farther discover of Asia, and much of the world has been underprivileged of Lenovo Android goodness. Until now.

Lenovo has officially declared 2 newborn Android devices, both of which module eventually be acquirable around the world – they went on understanding today in Asia.

The prototypal figure is the most straightforward; it’s titled the Lenovo LePad, and as you belike guessed, it’s Lenovo’s Android Tablet and iPad competitor. We’ve been expecting this digit for awhile and whatever of its glasses include Android 2.2, snapdragon processor, 1 rate Snapdragon processor, 10.1-inch screen, front-facing camera, 3G and Wi-Fi, and Adobe Flash.

Now imagine you could verify the LePad and behave it into (and discover of) a portable laptop hold that booted Windows 7, allowing you to instantly alter between Windows 7 and Android. What would you hit then?

Well, then you would hit the Lenovo IdeaPad U1, and this abstract is practically the definition of hybrid:

And if you’d kinda meet hit the LePad with a keyboard, don’t fret, because THAT figure comes with a cut that accomplishes meet that:

The Lenovo LePad module outlay most $599 patch the IdeaPad U1 module outlay $1399…no articulate still on the outlay of the LePad Dock.

We’ll hit recording of the LePad up tomorrow so be trusty to check into Phandroid for the details!

Here is the flooded advise release:

Best of Both Worlds: Lenovo’s Dual Mode Hybrid System New Two-in-One Mobile Device Speaks Android and Windows LePad multi-touch Android listing for mobility and U1 laptop PC humble for full Windows 7 experience

CES 2011, Las Vegas - Jan 5, 2011: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today declared the IdeaPad U1 organism with LePad slate, a unequalled two-in-one figure that combines the mobility of a media rich, high-definition listing featuring admittance to Android applications and a keyboard humble that provides a flooded Windows 7 profession experience. Offering great performance, both separately and together for a unequalled Hybrid Switch dual fashion aptitude to alter between digit assorted operating systems, Lenovo delivers to consumers an uncompromised ambulatory and profession experience.

"Our IdeaPad U1 and LePad genuinely fits the ambulatory lifestyle," said Liu Jun, grownup evilness president, Idea Product Group, Lenovo. "Use the light-weight listing when you’re mobile, and then only motion it into the U1 humble when you requirement to create and modify content. Consumers shouldn’t hit to alter their style to technology, and this creation definitely delivers twice the functionality and fun in digit device."

LePad Slate - Light, Long-Lasting and Application Rich

At low digit pounds and only half an inch in thickness, the extremely portable LePad, supercharged by a Qualcomm’s Snapdragon™ processor, keeps users unbelievably ambulatory all day with up to octad hours of battery life. LePad is acquirable in quaternary stylish colors with digit assorted textures: scarlet, white, brown leather unsmooth and black leather textured. The 10.1-inch widescreen and rich, broad definition LePad listing runs in genre and portrait modes. Users crapper spend noesis such as video, surf the Internet, admittance ethnic networks from their fingertips, as substantially as tap discover messages and email. It also has a front camera for attractive pictures or recording chat.

“We are agog that Lenovo has chosen our Snapdragon processor to noesis the LePad slate,” said Luis Pineda, grownup evilness chair of marketing and creation direction for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. “Lenovo’s original 3G adjoining slate, supercharged by our Snapdragon platform, enables a broad performance, ever adjoining undergo for consumers on the go."

Built upon Android 2.2., Lenovo bespoken the LePad listing with an optimized Android media undergo on LePad’s larger concealment size, starting with an attractive four-pane easy to ingest programme and a distinctive Lenovo-developed near assist that delivers email, programme and another noesis in actual time, eliminating the requirement to constantly open a browser and index in. LePad leverages the Android ecosystem Lenovo has already established in China for the LePhone Smartphone. LePad users, in constituent to enjoying some preloaded applications, also hit admittance to thousands of custom Android apps from China’s crowning noesis partners that are optimized uniquely for its large screen. Lenovo plans for LePad to hold Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, hunting to wage users a more rank Web feeding experience.

IdeaPad U1 for a Complete Laptop

For users who requirement the flooded functionality of a mainstream laptop for doing noesis creation with Windows-based fecundity applications, the LePad crapper motion into the U1 base. The IdeaPad U1 organism laptop with a flooded keyboard transforms the user programme on LePad into Windows 7. The humble features a Windows 7 Home Premium operating grouping and an Intel CULV processor. With the Hybrid Switch feature, users crapper seamlessly modify operating systems to hold a continuous Web feeding experience.

Pricing and Availability

The Lenovo IdeaPad U1 with LePad module be acquirable prototypal in China in the prototypal lodge of 2011. The LePad listing crapper be purchased separately from the U1 base. The LePad listing starts at roughly RMB 3,499 (approximately US $520), and the U1 organism laptop starts at roughly RMB 8,888 (approximately US $1,300). For detailed pricing and availability for another markets, please contact your Lenovo representative.

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